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Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. Providers were alerted of positive screens by rooming staff to either assess further or refer to our Pediatric SUD Clinic to manage.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

” So a lot of times it’s a referral back to their primary care, to a specialist-. Emmy: I think we’ve heard a lot about things like, “How do you embed it in preventive wellness visits?” Emmy: Sometimes it is, “Go see your eye doctor. They know where to send people.

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